Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. FEB 25, 18)9

Manawatu Herald, 25 February 1899, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. FEB 25, 18)9

The Standard understands that im p jrtant alterations in connection with the financial arrangements of the Dairy Union are contemplated. We here that an action for damages for breach of promise will shortly be before the Court. The case will be of oarticular interest to residents of Waikanae and Paraparaumu. — Otaki Mail. We regret, to learh that Mr L. A. Abraham is dangerously ill with tyhoid fever. There are very few residents in this district for whom there will be nich general sympathy and so many fervent wishes for recovery. — Palmerston Standard. The public were excluded from Court during the hearing of the serious charge against Wilson, the Albany arrestee, charged with the Oxley murder. The German liner Priu2 Regent Luittold was quarantined on arrival a' Periih. One of the crew of Cingalese is suffering from small-pox. General 3ooth is amongst the detained passengers and it will upset the plans oi lis tour. The Wellington correspondent o the Hawke's Bay Herald supplies thtallowing: — I have it on good authority hat the reorganisation which is to take lace in connection with the Bank o -lew Zealand is intended to be effected on the basis of bringing the expenditure •n salaries, &c, down to a set limit It is intended that it shall apply, not mly to the head office officials, but to hose throughout the length and ireadth of the colony, though every iffort will be made to prevent anything •ke injustice being done. This wa^ nade clear in a speech of the chair nan of directors recently, but it was ibundantly evident also that the interests of the bank must invariably be the irst consideration of the board. At Manaia on Monday Mr Jos. McCarthy dug a plot of ground one chain vide by fifteen yards, or an area of 530 square yards in eight hours. A yager of £5 was laid that McCarthy :oukl not carry out the contract in the d lotted time, but the work was comleted with 18 minutes to the gbod vbout 200 people visited the ground luring the day. Queensland is maturating a new leparture in the fruit trade. It is, ound that dried bananas take the place •f rasins in puddings very well, and an interprising firm in Queensland has ent to ihe Agent-General's Office, in /ictoria-street, Westminister, a conignment of dried bananas, with ihe bject of opening up a market for th-rn 0 England. As soon as the public aye tasted for themselves the agreeble flavour which dried bananas gi\e [ me puddings, there is sure to be a big demand for them.

Sergeant Wright has arrived in London from Monte Video, with Josep Myers, who is " wanted " in Wellington, New Zealand. They will sail fo New Zealand in the Wakanui on thi jth of March. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the well mown poet, is lying ill in New York He is suffering from inflammation < the lungs, anJ his condition is critical. The Rev. E. H. Taylor, who is v occupy the pulpit at the MethoJL. Church to-morrow is an able and el quent speaker, and was for many year minister of the Church of Christ a the Thames. The Good Templars will assemble in regalia at the station this evening tc meet the Grand Chief Templar, who i to conduct a mission here for thre< nights. To-morrow night at 8. 15 (afte church), he will give a limelight illustration of the wreck of the Wairarap? These views are exceptionally good and well worth seeing. On Monda and Tuesday nights he lectures o\ various aspects of the Drink Traffi< \ll the meetings will be held in tht Foxton Public Hall, and a silver coi will be charged for admission. Messrs P. Hennessy & Co. notif, the expected arrival of a cargo of th best screened coal on Monday by th 3.5. Waverley. At the sale of privileges of , the Horo whenua Racing Club yesterday, thoutside gates were purchased by M Hillary for £40. The inside gates an he cards were bought in. The pub licans' booths realised £10 and £„. and the refreshment booth was pur chased by Mr Langley for £«. Clay modelling is now being taught in all State schools in the Wellingto. district. Several Canterbury teacher* are learning the art at the School c Art, and one teacher has already intro :\n<\*ri it at the West Christchurc; school. The s.s. Mapourika, which wen ashore at Greymouth some time age ; s expected to be re-floated on Marc 8:h. There was a smart passage-at-arm* be ween the Minister of Defence an. Wilson, M.H.R. for Wellingtoi suburbs, on the occasion of a deputa tion of citizens asking that the road b: continued round Point Halswell forti iication. Mr Thompson replied tha the military adviser of the Govern nent condemned the proposal, and thwork would not be done. Mr Wilson " I tell you it is going to be done. Th: military adviser must learn that thpeople govern this colony, and not he md red-tape obstinacy will not b tolerated." Mr Thompson reiterate'hat the work would npt be done. M' vVilson ; " I tell you it is going to b« lone. Wait till next session, and vill make you do it whether you like \ or not." After further interchange t he deputation withdrew. For flagrant incompetency an< judicial inanity commend us to som< oftheJ.'s.P. to whom are entrusted certain judiciary powers in this country Two of these worthies recently pre sided (in a Dunedin suburb) over s case brought by the police against tw young men for insulting two ladies whom they followed from a pub come into a church where a rehearsal wat going on. Here they further insultet 1 those present, and struck the girl 1 ' father, when they were floored and handed over to the police. During th Court proceedings, one of the accusec (who had been before the Court or ither charges, and once served six months for a grave offence) used som most unseemly language towar. vitnesses. This, even, did not per turbate the equanimity of the twe intellectual gentleman occupying th-. Bench, who, after taking voluminous, and convicting evidence in connectioi A'ith the case, dismissed it — even without a caution. Thus are the ends o f Justice defeated, and crime propagated. A Paris benefaction of is awarded annually to the poor mar who can show the largest and most creditably reared family. A shoemaker with 14 children alive has just carried it off. Mr Thomas Young, of Watford, r retired draper, aged 105, and Mr Mary McDonald, of Brown's Hill, Carlow, aged no, have recently died. The Wesleyan Methodists propose to raise a million sterling as a Twentieth Century Fund. In five weeks £273,000 had been promised. At a charitable Bazaar, at Whitley, Surrey, a financier turned auctioneer, and offered for sale a doll which he valued at 7s 6d. A spirited compete tion sprang up, and the doll was finally sold for £350. A miserly countess has died in Rqumania. On her house . being searched money to the value of £66,000 vas found hidden in all conceivable ilaces. An immense bog is moving and threatens to change the course of the river Shannon. A good story is told by Rudyard Kipling. During his stay in Wiltshire one summer, he met little Dorothy Orew, Mr Gladstone's granddaughter, md, being very fond of children, took her into the grounds and told her stories. After a time Mrs Drew, fearng that Mr Kipling must be tired of "he child, called her and said, " Now Dorothy, I hope you have not been vearying Mr Kipling." " Oh, not a cut, mother," she replied, " but he has been wearying me. One of the most extraordinary stories if precocity on the part of a child ever related is published in the latest \merican papers to hand. It is to the jflfect that a remarkable scene was vitnessed at Mount Olivet Baptist Church, a negro place of worship in New York, on the afternoon of the 6th of last month, where Laurence Dennis, a negro boy, alleged to be five years old, preached a stirring sermon, exciting the congregation to a pitch of renzy by his fervent calls to repentmce. The child comes from Georgia, md showed wonderful precocity >ince lis infancy. He has been interviewed 1 the New V irk paper , and discusses jligious questions l'e a vetfran lerpyman. He claim obe divinely inspired a <v many negroes wre hailing him as the" new Messiah.

Mr Stanley Kent, of St. Thomas' Hospital, London, it said to have discovered the specific organism upon vhich vaccination depends. He has prepared pure cultures of the germ and . 3 ed them for vaccination. If these >ecome generally available, it is hought there will be no longer any risk of disease from the use of impure Jymph.